Reflection Pillar 4 Blog Post - It's Never Too Late To Learn
6. Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school a increase learning opportunities: 1. Take ownership of students who need extra help. 2. Create a classroom setting where all students feel welcome. 3. Share my story with students and try to encourage them to stay with school. 4. Show compassion with actions and not just words. 5.Be a change agent. 1. What role does school play in building students’ agency and identity?
Schools play a major part in the up bring of students. Most schools in the United States or in session 6-8 hours a day, students spend a third of their life in these intuitions. Over all, I believe student’s find their sense of community, identity beliefs in schools. 2. How aware are you and your colleagues of the impact our choice of words have on developing students’ agency and identity? Can you give examples? I have worked at two schools in my career, one was a community school and the other is a charter school. At the community school my colleagues talked to the students in a very aggressive tone, I don’t know if it was the right thing to do, but it worked with court ordered students. So I guess you can say teachers didn’t hold student’s identity in high esteem. At my charter school I work at teachers have been fired for disrespecting students through their words. It’s a total opposite culture of what I was used to. The culture at the charter school students or held in high esteem, we feel they are the future of our country so we speak to them as if they already are. 2. What would you do, if anything, to make using choice words a more conscious and accountable school wide practice if you were the school leader? I would make sure staff and students are accountable for their words. We never know the state of mind of a person so we need to speak positive to them. A negative word can send someone in to a downward spiral, but of the flip side of that a positive word can up let the spirt of someone. 3. What could you do, if anything, to make the use of choice words a more conscious and accountable personal practice as well as one embraced by others on your site? Are those things within your sphere of influence? I wouldn’t change anything at my current school. Right now the only one I can hold accountable is myself, but I feel that some of my coworkers can be influence by my actions just how I been influence by there’s. 5. Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school choose words wisely? 1. Speak more positively to students. 2. Think before I speak. 3. Create a culture where negative words or not the norm. 4. Commit to up lifting students that might not have the best home life. 5. Be a casteless of change. 1. When it comes to the concept of Do No Harm, I believe that school is and should be a safeguard for all students. The hierarchy of feeling safe is the ultimate necessity in the educational process. This can be achieved by staff, students and stakeholders by creating a culture of well-being.
2. Future sphere of influence, as the school leader, how would my beliefs be reflected in discipline policies and practices? I believe that giving students a voice in matters of discipline can be very powerful. Sometimes students act out from being misunderstood. Giving students the right to express themselves in matters of discipline usually ends up with the student apologizing and taking there punishment like young adults. 3. Future sphere of influence, as the school leader, how would my beliefs be reflected in program practices and initiatives? a. I believe that as teachers we need to be flexible and be relevant to our students each year. I would invite student bodies to be at the yearly discipline procedure process. This would allow staff and students to be in one accord on all discipline procedures. We have this implemented at the school I work at now. When a student has a problem with dress code we remind them that they were invited to be in the process of decision making. This has helped out on many issues over the years. If staff or students feel like something should be altered we revisit our handbook each year to make adjustments. 4. Future sphere of influence, as the school leader, how would my beliefs be reflected in our professional development as a community of learners? The professional development I believe all schools should have are PLC. PLC have helped out in the development of our school culture, instruction, and collaboration. In a real PLC educators are there to share knowledge and get expert insight from all who attend. 5. Is the concept of teaching students to “first do no harm” integrated into the culture of your school (or workplace)? I believe “first do no harm” is integrated in our school. I used to work at a community school before I got hired at my current employer. I was used to seeing fights on a daily basis. When I started working at my charter school I was shocked to hear that there has not been a fight on campus in five years. Your campus is not perfect but there has been a culture of safety and wellbeing for students that I have not witnessed elsewhere. 6. How does your answer to the previous prompt sit with you? I feel we are doing many things right when it comes to creating a culture of safety and wellbeing. Students will not tolerate any physical violence at all. We still have many other issues at our school, but I feel we are doing some really good things. 7. Current sphere of influence: Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school a more positive restorative place: 1 Be responsible for my actions , sometimes we as instructors know how to push all the right buttons to set off students we don’t get along with. 2 Introduce restorative practices to students. 3 Be a professional at all times and don’t fall into verbal conflicts. 4 Be the teacher/leader your staff look up to. 5 Use verbal Judo. How is the challenge of making stakeholders feel welcome to your school (or place of work) connected to your school mission?
As a school leader I would communicate to the stakeholders all the opportunity’s they have to get involved with our school. There are school sports that need fans in the seats as well as volunteers helping out at games too. Rally around making the school a place of connection for all that are involved. Current Sphere of Influence: What can you do in your present position to enhance welcoming these stakeholders?
Current Sphere of Influence: Commit to 5 things you are willing to do this semester that will make your school a more welcoming place:
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